Arctic Fund Management offers equity- and fixed income funds in Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg and the UK. The funds have delivered strong risk-adjusted returns with several funds at the very top within their peer group. The funds have broad mandates and adjust to changing market conditions.

All private clients may set up an account directly with Arctic Fund Management. By logging in with BankID, clients will have a complete overview of their portfolio with in-depth fund comments and portfolio analysis. (In Norwegian only.)

We advise and manage assets on behalf of institutional clients as investment companies, family offices, pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, municipalities, banks as well as other institutions that prefer to use an independent asset manager.

Arctic Fund Management AS is an independent Norwegian investment manager established in 2010. The company is part of the Arctic Group headquartered in Oslo along with one investment team located in Stockholm.

ABOUT US

Arctic Fund Management AS is an independent Norwegian investment manager established in 2010. The company is part of the Arctic Group headquartered in Oslo along with one investment team located in Stockholm.

Arctic Fund Management AS ("AFM") is an independent Norwegian investment manager established and owned by its employees, Arctic Partners and RASMUSSENGRUPPEN. AFM has a licence from the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet) to conduct discretionary portfolio management and associated services pursuant to the Securities Trading Act (lov om verdipapirhandel). AFM is a fundamentally-driven asset manager, and our active management is based on expertise and methodological analysis of markets, sectors and companies. Our managers have delivered very good historical returns in all asset classes that we manage and have extensive experience from stock and fixed income markets.

AFM was founded on 8 June 2010 and started its business as Investment Manager for Arctic Funds Plc from 15 November 2010. AFM manages mutual funds and discretionary portfolios, with both fixed income and equity funds at disposal.

Long relationships with both customers and employees support AFM's ambition of building a stable and successful asset management business. AFM aims to become one of Norway's leading asset managers for both institutions and wealthy individuals.

Albert Collett

20 years relevant work experience in fund management. Albert worked previously for Alfred Berg (1998-2010) as Nordic Head of Fundamental Equity and was a member of the Nordic Executive Committee. He also held positions as Portfolio Manager and analyst in Alfred Berg. He was performance responsible and Portfolio Manager for Nordic Combined (2002-2010), Norwegian Equities (2002-2010) and Danish Equities (2007-2010).

Samuel K. Haile

Samuel previously worked for Alfred Berg Kapitalforvaltning AS (2010-2011) within the middle office team. Before that he worked for Orkla Finans as fund manager assistant. He holds a BSc in Finance from the Norwegian School of Management (BI).

Heidi Rønningen

Heidi has previously worked for different companies within the finance sector; for Navigea Securities (2011-2012) as Head of Compliance and Risk Control, for Sector Asset Management as Head of Compliance (2008-2011), for Orkla Finans as Compliance Officer (2003-2008), for DnB Asset Management as Compliance Officer (1998-2003) and before that for Landsbanken as lawyer. She holds a law degree from University of Oslo and an MBA from Norwegian School of Management (BI).

Board of directors

Board of directors Arctic Fund Management and Arctic Asset Management

Atle Degré

Chairman

Atle Degré is a Candidate in Jurisprudence from the University of Oslo (1991). He practices as lawyer and partner in KLUGE, advokatfirma DA, specialized in capital markeds and securities law, transactions and company law. Before joining KLUGE, he was general counsel, Senior Vice President and head of the legal and listings department of Oslo Børs ASA and Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA (2000-2010), where he first practiced as a lawyer (1995-2000).

Previously he held positions as a deputy judge and acting judge in Lofoten Municipality Court (1993-94) and the Ministry of Finance (1992). Degré has served as chairman of the Norwegian Corporate Governance Board, as a board member of Oslo Clearing ASA and has been appointed to several official committees preparing legislation in the field of securities law.

Børre Grønningsæter

Board Member

Grønningsæter holds a degree in Building and Construction from Gothenburg Technical Institute (1991), and a Bachelor degree from Norwegian school of Economics and Business Administration, NHH (1994). He started work as a stockbroker in 1994 for Saga Securities AS in Oslo (now Danske Securities ASA), and became partner in 1995. In 1998 he joined RASMUSSENGRUPPEN AS in Kristiansand as a Portfolio Manager, and has since 2006 held the position as Investment Manager.

Grønningsæter is also the Managing Director of PORTIA AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of RASMUSSENGRUPPEN AS.

Stein Vidar Håland

Stein Vidar Håland graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in 1974. In 1976 he joined the RASMUSSENGRUPPEN AS and is the CFO of the company..

Petter Bakken

Board Member

Petter Bakken is a founding partner of Arctic Securities AS. He was the Head of Corporate Finance in Arctic Securities from 2007-2013. Bakken previously worked with Orkla Finans/SEB Enskilda from 1991-2007, the last 13 years as Head of Corporate Finance in Norway. Before that he worked with SEB in Frankfurt (1987-1991). He has extensive experience from all kind of corporate finance transactions in the Norwegian market, both within M&A and ECM.

Kjetil Bakken

Board Member

Kjetil joined Arctic in 2007. He previously worked as Associate Director in UBS Corporate Finance, London, focusing on Nordic financial institutions (2005-2007) and as an Analyst in Corporate Finance with Deutsche Bank in London (2002-2005). He holds an MA in Business & Finance from The University of Edinburgh..

Compliance

Arctic Fund Management is authorized as an investment firm and is under supervision by the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority. The Compliance department seeks to ensure that the company conducts its activities in accordance with applicable laws and standards.

Heidi Rønningen

Heidi has previously worked for different companies within the finance sector; for Navigea Securities (2011-2012) as Head of Compliance and Risk Control, for Sector Asset Management as Head of Compliance (2008-2011), for Orkla Finans as Compliance Officer (2003-2008), for DnB Asset Management as Compliance Officer (1998-2003) and before that for Landsbanken as lawyer. She holds a law degree from University of Oslo and an MBA from Norwegian School of Management (BI).

Licenses

Please see below for information on the licences Arctic Fund Management and its subsidiaries hold.

Norway Arctic Fund Management AS is registered in the Norwegian registry of business enterprises under registration no. 995 629 070. Arctic Fund Management AS is under supervision by the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority.

Capital adequacy

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